disease

Macular Degeneration

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This page aggregates everything SciDEX knows about Macular Degeneration: its mechanistic relationships (Knowledge Graph edges), hypotheses targeting it, analyses mentioning it, and supporting scientific papers. The interactive graph below shows its immediate neighbors. All content is AI-synthesized from peer-reviewed literature.

298Connections

0Hypotheses

0Analyses

50Outgoing

50Incoming

0Experiments

0Debates

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Disease Info

Associated Genes	ABCA1, ABCA4, ABCA7, AGING, AKT, ALZHEIMER, ALZHEIMER DISEASE, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
KG Connections	291 knowledge graph edges
Databases	OMIM Orphanet ClinicalTrials PubMed

Pathway Diagram

graph TD
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Autophagy["Autophagy"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Apoptosis["Apoptosis"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"associated"| Autophagy_1["Autophagy"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"regulates"| Differentiation["Differentiation"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"causes"| Epithelial_Mesenchymal_Transit["Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"causes"| Oxidative_Stress["Oxidative Stress"]
    AUTOPHAGY["AUTOPHAGY"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"]
    APOPTOSIS["APOPTOSIS"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"]
    AUTOPHAGY_2["AUTOPHAGY"] -->|"activates"| Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"]
    AUTOPHAGY_3["AUTOPHAGY"] -->|"associated"| Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"]
    style Macular_Degeneration fill:#ef5350,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:2px,color:#e0e0e0

Outgoing (80)

Target	Relation	Type	Str
Autophagy	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.80
Apoptosis	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.80
Oxidative Stress	causes	pathway	0.70
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition	causes	pathway	0.70
Autophagy	associated_with	pathway	0.70
Differentiation	regulates	pathway	0.70
Inflammation	therapeutic_target	disease	0.65
Autophagy	activates	pathway	0.65
Alzheimer	associated_with	disease	0.65
Als	therapeutic_target	disease	0.65
Complement	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Phagocytosis	causes	pathway	0.60
Mitochondrial Function	causes	pathway	0.60
Mitophagy	causes	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	interacts_with	pathway	0.60
Autophagy	causes	pathway	0.60
Senescence	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.60
Mtor	regulates	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	activates	pathway	0.60
Mitochondrial Function	activates	pathway	0.60
Nf-Κb	activates	pathway	0.60
Senescence	causes	pathway	0.60
Ferroptosis	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.60
Mitophagy	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Apoptosis	implicated_in	pathway	0.60
Pyroptosis	implicated_in	pathway	0.60
Mtor	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Synaptic Plasticity	regulates	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	regulates	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Mitochondrial Function	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Aging	associated_with	disease	0.55
Inflammation	associated_with	disease	0.55
Endocytosis	associated_with	pathway	0.55
Cancer	therapeutic_target	disease	0.55
Inflammation	interacts_with	disease	0.55
Mitophagy	regulates	pathway	0.55
Autophagy	regulates	pathway	0.55
Ferroptosis	regulates	pathway	0.55
Lymphoma	therapeutic_target	disease	0.55
Lipid Metabolism	activates	pathway	0.55
Cholesterol	activates	pathway	0.55
Inflammasome	activates	pathway	0.55
Retinopathy	associated_with	disease	0.55
Glaucoma	associated_with	disease	0.55
Nf-Κb	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.55
Cardiovascular	implicated_in	disease	0.55
Parkinson	associated_with	disease	0.55
Sarcopenia	associated_with	disease	0.55

Incoming (218)

Source	Relation	Type	Str
Stargardt'S Disease	associated_with	disease	0.90
Stargardt's Disease	involved_in	disease	0.85
AUTOPHAGY	therapeutic_target	gene	0.85
APOPTOSIS	therapeutic_target	gene	0.85
OXIDATIVE STRESS	causes	gene	0.75
BCL-2	therapeutic_target	gene	0.75
LC3	therapeutic_target	gene	0.75
ALZHEIMER	associated_with	gene	0.75
MITOCHONDRIA	associated_with	gene	0.75
AUTOPHAGY	associated_with	gene	0.75
AUTOPHAGY	activates	gene	0.75
INFLAMMATION	therapeutic_target	gene	0.75
TXNRD1	causes	gene	0.65
PHAGOCYTOSIS	causes	gene	0.65
FERROPTOSIS	activates	gene	0.65
TFEB	regulates	gene	0.65
ATG4B	activates	gene	0.65
PI3K	causes	gene	0.65
MTORC1	regulates	gene	0.65
CANCER	associated_with	gene	0.65
AKT	regulates	gene	0.65
ULK1	regulates	gene	0.65
COMPLEMENT	associated_with	gene	0.65
MITOCHONDRIA	causes	gene	0.65
DIABETIC RETINOPATHY	associated_with	gene	0.65
GENES	interacts_with	gene	0.65
INFLAMMATION	interacts_with	gene	0.65
TOMM20	activates	gene	0.65
PKC	regulates	gene	0.65
ATG	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
ATG5	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
ALZHEIMER	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
AMYLOID	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
BCL2	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
LAMP1	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
MITOCHONDRIA	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
NAD	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
OXIDATIVE STRESS	interacts_with	gene	0.65
SIRT1	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
OXIDATIVE STRESS	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
ARC	associated_with	gene	0.65
APOPTOSIS	implicated_in	gene	0.65
NEURODEGENERATION	implicated_in	gene	0.65
PYROPTOSIS	implicated_in	gene	0.65
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS	associated_with	gene	0.65
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE	associated_with	gene	0.65
PINK1	activates	gene	0.65
NFE2L2	causes	gene	0.65
PARKIN	activates	gene	0.65

Targeting Hypotheses (0)

Hypotheses where this entity is a therapeutic target

Hypothesis	Score	Disease	Analysis
No targeting hypotheses

Mentioning Analyses (0)

Scientific analyses that reference this entity

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Experiments (0)

Experimental studies targeting or related to this entity

Experiment	Type	Disease	Score	Feasibility	Model	Status	Est. Cost
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Related Papers (0)

Scientific publications cited in analyses involving this entity

Title & PMID	Authors	Journal	Year	Citations
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Debates (0)

Multi-agent debates referencing this entity

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Related Research

Hypotheses and analyses mentioning Macular Degeneration in their description or question text

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